Plugin ends up abruptly without completition or error, making other plugins not to start

Hi team,

I'm using semantic versioning on a few of our projects. I want to include it in existing projects that already have many releases. Since it's the initial run of sv on the project, it found a lot of commits to include in the initial release.

For some reason, the steps of this plugin finish abruptly, hence other sv plugins can't start (eg @semantic-release/changelog & @semantic-release/gitlab) for creation and publish of the tag.
I've set the debug mode, but can't get much info.
Here is the snippet of the CI job output (I've renamed sensitive info):

[8:04:05 AM] [semantic-release] [@semantic-release/commit-analyzer] › ℹ  The release type for the commit is major
[8:04:05 AM] [semantic-release] [@semantic-release/commit-analyzer] › ℹ  Analysis of 598 commits complete: major release
[8:04:05 AM] [semantic-release] › ✔  Completed step "analyzeCommits" of plugin "@semantic-release/commit-analyzer"
2023-06-06T08:27:23.976Z semantic-release:commit-analyzer Release type 'major' is the highest possible. Stop analysis.

[8:27:23 AM] [semantic-release] › ℹ  There is no previous release, the next release version is 1.0.0-rc.1
[8:27:23 AM] [semantic-release] › ℹ  Start step "generateNotes" of plugin "@semantic-release/release-notes-generator"
2023-06-06T08:27:24.220Z semantic-release:release-notes-generator version: '1.0.0-rc.1'
2023-06-06T08:27:24.220Z semantic-release:release-notes-generator host: undefined
2023-06-06T08:27:24.220Z semantic-release:release-notes-generator owner: 'project'
2023-06-06T08:27:24.220Z semantic-release:release-notes-generator repository: 'project'
2023-06-06T08:27:24.221Z semantic-release:release-notes-generator previousTag: undefined
2023-06-06T08:27:24.221Z semantic-release:release-notes-generator currentTag: 'v1.0.0-rc.1'
2023-06-06T08:27:24.221Z semantic-release:release-notes-generator host: 'https://gitab.server'/
2023-06-06T08:27:24.221Z semantic-release:release-notes-generator linkReferences: undefined
2023-06-06T08:27:24.221Z semantic-release:release-notes-generator issue: 'issues'
2023-06-06T08:27:24.221Z semantic-release:release-notes-generator commit: 'commit'

.releaserc config:

plugins:
  - "@semantic-release/commit-analyzer"
  - "@semantic-release/gitlab"
  - "@semantic-release/release-notes-generator"
  - - "@semantic-release/changelog"
    - changelogFile: CHANGELOG.md
branches:
  - "master"
  - "+([0-9])?(.{+([0-9]),x}).x"
  - name: "rc"
    prerelease: true

CI job definition:

9:semantic versioning (rc):
  stage: Semantic Versioning (rc)
  image: node:18.14.0
  allow_failure: false
  script:
    - touch CHANGELOG.md
    - npm install semantic-release@21.0.2 @semantic-release/gitlab @semantic-release/changelog
    - npx semantic-release --debug
  artifacts:
    paths:
      - CHANGELOG.md
    expire_in: 4 week
  rules:
    - if: '$CI_PIPELINE_SOURCE == "push" && $CI_COMMIT_REF_NAME == "rc"'

Many thanks!

Dusan

Start with the supplied CI output and .releaserc configuration, then reproduce the run using node:18.14.0 and semantic-release@21.0.2. Trace the generateNotes step in the release-notes-generator entry points and determine why execution stops without an error; done means the failure is explained and later plugins can run or a clear error is emitted.